Senior Product Designer

Job Overview

Hi! I'm Chris , head of Product Design at Ashby. We're looking for a versatile, intrinsically motivated designer who is excited to contribute to rethinking how modern software is designed.

At Ashby, you'll be part designer, part product manager, part consultant, and part design system manager (or some combination of the 4! ). We do design differently here, and if that excites you, read on.

Job Description

Our unique approach is working - we're growing >100% year-over-year and have notable customers like Notion, Linear, Shopify, and Snowflake.

Our growth and retention metrics are best-in-class among our peers: we have tens of millions in ARR, very low churn, and many years of runway. We're backed by amazing investors like Y Combinator, Elad Gil, Lachy Groom, and many more!

We’ll share more details once we meet. How We Work In my previous roles, product teams always consisted of a product manager, a designer, and ~4-5 engineers. This may sound familiar to you! The product manager briefs the designer who then designs.

After designing, mocks are handed to the engineers. We take a more principled approach here at Ashby. If you've been designing software enough, you'll realize in actuality, design is required in varying degrees on each project.

Sometimes in the past, I'd be asked to design yet another settings page, when really all that was needed was an engineer to reuse existing components and just follow some documentation I had written.

This principled approach is now what we do here, and it is part of what has allowed Ashby to take down incumbents in multiple verticals all at once. We don't settle for the status quo-we actively resist reversion to the mean.

Key Responsibilities

• At Ashby, you'll be part designer, part product manager, part consultant, and part design system manager (or some combination of the 4!).
• How We Work In my previous roles, product teams always consisted of a product manager, a designer, and ~4-5 engineers.
• The product manager briefs the designer who then designs.
• Other times, I felt I should effectively be the product manager and own a project from beginning to end.
• In these latter cases, it made sense that I was even the one providing project updates and managing resources rather than constantly being pinged by a separate product manager.
• What We’re Building Talent teams aspire to build a hiring process that identifies great candidates, moves them quickly through the interview process, and provides an excellent experience for the candidate.
• To accomplish this, recruiters perform thousands of daily tasks to coordinate and relay information between candidates, interviewers, and hiring managers.
• Helping reinvent the design model for modern enterprise software-you don’t have to build wireframes, user journeys, personas, etc.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• If you've been designing software enough, you'll realize in actuality, design is required in varying degrees on each project.
• What We’re Building Talent teams aspire to build a hiring process that identifies great candidates, moves them quickly through the interview process, and provides an excellent experience for the candidate.
• They must perform this while considering the interview load on each individual and whether interviewers need to be trained and shadowing others.
• Why you should or shouldn’t apply Your qualifications: 4+ years of product design experience in desktop SaaS.
• Enough experience that your intuition can solve many usability problems without having to rely solely on data & metrics or conducting user research.
• Strong skills in layout, navigation, IA, UI, and interaction design.
• Strong visual design skills and obsession with craft & details.
• As a bonus, you have experience at an early-stage startup or have spent time as a solo designer on a team.

Benefits and Perks

• As a bonus, you have experience at an early-stage startup or have spent time as a solo designer on a team.
• Benefits Competitive salary and equity.
• Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year.
• Expect “Vacation?” in our one-on-one agenda until you start taking it.
• If you’re in the US, top-notch health insurance for you and your dependents with all premiums covered by us.

Work Location and Schedule

This role is listed as Remote USA with location information shown as Remote USA. The employment type is Full Time.

About the Company

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